To:L. B. KAMENEV

Published:First published in 1964 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 47.

      Sent from Paris to Vienna.

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Thearticle about Koltsov received, read and passed
				on...[1];

I liked it very much, I think it turned out quite
well[2]..., no doubt it will cause a grand row? but there is aconstantrow there as it is!! The composition of the C.O. has
deteriorated[3]—a year before the plenumnot a singlerow. Nownot a single issue[without ] some document of protest,
threats and hysterics from Martov....

[Howdo matters stand ] with the report?

Don’tgive me away, for the love of Christ!

Iam again being “harried”—that is to say, reminded—by the
International Bureau. Write, write that [report ] as quickly as possible
[for the sake ] of all that’s holy.... As soon as the report is ready we
shall [tackle ] a legal Bolshevik
[journal].[4]

Withbest regards,Yours,Lenin

P.S.Rather scurvy behaviour of Trotsky’s in No. 10 ofPravda,[5]I must say!

[1]Manuscriptpartly damaged. Words in square brackets have been inserted
as suggested by the context and the remaining legible
letters.—Ed.

[2]Areference to L. B. Kamenev’s article “Another ‘Critic’ of the
Proletarian Movement”, printed inSotsial-DemokratNo. 14,
June 22 (July 5), 1910.

[3]TheEditorial Board ofSotsial-Demokrat, the Central Organ of
the R.S.D.L.P., consisted, as decided by the January 1910 plenary meeting
of the C.C., R.S.D.L.P., of 2 Bolsheviks, 2 Mensheviks, and one
representative of the Social-Democratic Party of Poland and Lithuania. Its
composition was as follows: from the Bolsheviks, Lenin and G. Y. Zinoviev;
from the Mensheviks, Y. 0. Martov and F. I. Dan, and from the Polish
Social-Democrats, A. Warski. When Martov and Dan found themselves in the
minority on one or another question, they created conflicts and complained
to the Central Committee Bureau Abroad about the Bolsheviks and the
representative of Polish Social-Democracy. The C.C. Bureau Abroad addressed
an inquiry to the C.C. concerning the “extent of the jurisdiction of the
C.C. Bureau Abroad in matters relating to conflicts arising in the
Editorial Board of the Central Organ”. The Bolsheviks proposed to the
C.C. that a plenary meeting of the C.C. be called to replace Martov and Dan
in the Editorial Board of the Central Organ with pro-Party Mensheviks (see
present edition, Vol. 16, pp. 191–94).

[4]ThejournalMysl(Thought), started publication in Moscow in
December 1910. It was closed in April 1911, the last issue, No. 5, being
confiscated.

[5]Areference to the Menshevik liquidationist paperPravda,
Trotsky’s factionalist organ, published in 1908–12. The first issues came
out in Lvov and from No. 4 on it was published in Vienna.